The title Lord Mayor was granted to Dublin in 1665 and Belfast in 1892.

The Charter giving the title ‘Lord Mayor to the first citizen of Cork was granted in July 1900, to Mayor Daniel Hegarty (1849-1914) who is mentioned in the text of the Charter. At the Mayoral election in January 1901 Edward FitzGerald was the first to be actually elected as Lord Mayor. It was his idea to have the Great Exhibition of 1902. FitzGerald Park is named after him.

• The title 'Lord Mayor' is purely customary, but of great age.

• In the Latin of the thirteenth century 'dominus major' is found, and in English 'Lord Mair' in 1414.

• By the sixteenth century the prefix 'Right Honourable' was in use.

• The first recorded Mayor of London was Henry Fitz-Ailwyn 1189.

• Since then, some 700 men and one woman have over the centuries held the position of chief officer of the City of London.